Use Technology to Solve the Following Problem: a Recent Study

question 35

Multiple Choice

Use technology to solve the following problem: A recent study reported that diastolic blood pressures of adult women in the United States are approximately normally distributed with mean 80.9 and standard deviation 8.8. What proportion of women have blood pressures lower than 65.8?

• A) 0.9569
• B) 0.9785
• C) 0.0431
• D) 0.0215

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Definitions:

Factory

An establishment or complex of establishments involved in the machine-based production or assembly of merchandise.

Work in Process Account

An account in the general ledger representing the costs of incomplete products in manufacturing at any given time.

Cost Ledger

A subsidiary ledger that records the individual costs of production, providing detailed cost information.

Period Cost

Expenses that are not directly tied to the production of goods and are expensed in the period in which they are incurred, such as selling and administrative costs.